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60% favor handgun ban- Gallup Poll

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Anonymous

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As for handgun ownership, a near record high of 73 percent say handguns should not be banned, but that has not always been the case.

In 1960, when Gallup first asked the question, 60 percent favored a ban on handguns, except for those carried by police officers and similar authorities. By 1975, that figure slipped to 41 percent.

Today, more like one in four still say handguns should be banned.
http://www.guns.com/2014/10/31/gallup-poll-more-americans-open-to-owning-handgun-less-on-gun-control-video/

Interesting- the country has moved much more tolerant on handgun ownership in the last 50+ years ....
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
As for handgun ownership, a near record high of 73 percent say handguns should not be banned, but that has not always been the case.

In 1960, when Gallup first asked the question, 60 percent favored a ban on handguns, except for those carried by police officers and similar authorities. By 1975, that figure slipped to 41 percent.

Today, more like one in four still say handguns should be banned.
http://www.guns.com/2014/10/31/gallup-poll-more-americans-open-to-owning-handgun-less-on-gun-control-video/

Interesting- the country has moved much more tolerant on handgun ownership in the last 50+ years ....

Not surprising at all. Back when I was a kid, folks thought only a coward carried a concealed handgun. Most folks had a shotgun or rifle on a rack in the window of the truck though.

When the liberal looney left started a push to control handguns, more folks started to push back on over-reaching gov't tyranny. It was only natural.
What's the point?
 

Steve

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all it takes is getting robbed or knowing a person who was brutally beaten to change your attitude a bit...
 

hypocritexposer

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Incestuous Marriage used to be illegal too...

Nearly a century after the same court annulled a marriage between an uncle and his half-niece, New York’s top court said on Tuesday that a woman’s union with her half-uncle was lawful.

U.S. immigration officials in 2007 said Vietnamese citizen Huyen Nguyen’s marriage in 2000 to her mother’s half-brother, U.S. citizen Vu Truong, was void and sought to deport her. A federal appeals court asked the New York Court of Appeals to decide whether such marriages were lawful.

In a 6-0 decision siding with Nguyen, Judge Robert Smith wrote, “First cousins are allowed to marry in New York, and I conclude that it was not the Legislature’s purpose to avert the similar, relatively small, genetic risk inherent in relationships like this one.”


Marriage Equality: Judge Legalizes Illegal Incestuous Marriage

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/marriage-equality-judge-legalizes-illegal-incestuous-marriage/
 
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